Winter Challenge 2025 - Could you write a book?

[Trish]

I actually finished this Winter challenge back on 27/08/25 but forgot to post..Holidays do distract me !!

Crime Club Winter Challenge - Could you write a book?
Duration: 1/6/25 - 31/8/25
Level: Hard
15/15

Part one: Plan your book
✔️1. Choose your genre. This has to be crime but be specific. Is it mystery, romantic suspense, thriller, cosy etc
Read a book from the genre you have chosen..legal thriller
Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke....3.5* 05/06/25

✔️2. Select a location. Where will your book be set?
Read a book set in that same location...Ireland
The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan....4* 22/08/25

✔️3. Time period. Today? Or will it be a historical mystery? Or maybe take a hint from J.D.Robb and set in the future?
Read a book from the same time period...today
Kill Your Husbands by Jack Heath....3.5* 19/06/25

✔️4. You need a main character. For this one select one of your favourite female crime characters. Frankie Elkin
Read a book with that character in it
Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner....3.5* 26/06/25

✔️5. You need another main character. For this one select one of your favourite male crime characters.
Read a book with that character in it Armand Gamache
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny....3.5* 13/08/25

✔️6. When you have finished your book which author would you like to be compared with?
Read a book by a very well known author whose books you love. Ann Cleeves
Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves....4* 17/08/25



Part two: Choose a title for your book (minimum 6 letters) and spell it out using either first letter of title (disregarding "A", "An" or "The" if you choose to) or either the first or last initial of the author. For the difficult letters - Q, X and Z, you may use a book in which the letter appears somewhere in the title or author's first or last name.

My title GRAVESITE

✔️G - Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood....3.5* 07/07/25
✔️R - The Long Game by Simon Rowell....4* 03/08/25
✔️A - Will to Live by Rachel Amphlett....4* 27/08/25
✔️V - The Last Illusion of Paige White by Vanessa McCausland....4* 04/07/25
✔️E - One More to Die by Joy Ellis....3.5* 28/06/25
✔️S - The Search Party by Hannah Richell....4* 27/06/25
✔️I - Dead Sleep by Greg Iles....3.5* 21/07/25
✔️T - A Town Called Treachery by Mitch Jennings....4* 12/07/25
✔️E - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex....3.5* 10/08/25

[Phrynne, Mystery lover!]

Well done Trish:)

[Brenda, Suspense lover!]

Great work Trish!! And I might have archived them a bit soon ;)

[Trish]

Thank you, Phrynne and Brenda. Trying to catch up on what I missed posting whilst I was on holidays.